Children liable for their parents! Up- and down-stream liability within the economic unit
There is news about group liability in competition law. After Skanska, the next case to catch the ECJ’s attention is Sumal. Advocate General Giovanni Pitruzzella has just given his opinion. Christian Kersting and Jannik Otto report. Background The ECJ clarified in Skanska (Case C-724/17) that it is the undertaking itself, i.e. the economic unit, that infringes competition law. This led the Court to the conclusion that there is also successor liability, meaning that the legal successor of the infringer is…